Use Speedtest.net from command line

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to test your upload/download speed from your VPS and share the “famous” picture from speedtest.net ?

Speedtest.net uses Flash to test upload/download speed which is a hassle on most VPS.
The long way to get this is to install VNC and run it from a browser, but that is no longer necessary.
We can now use Matt Martz python script speedtest-cli to accomplish this from the commandline.

Prerequisites:

Python 2.4-2.7 or 3

After you have installed Python on your vps download the speedtest-cli file from github
speedtest-cli works with Python 2.4-3.3: